Benjamin David Burrell

Red Leaves and The Living Token is an original fantasy tale about three races, the Botan, the Zo and the Petra that I received as an ARC. The story focuses on Raj Handers, a young Zo father whose son is ill and both father and son are desperate for a cure. Emret, Raj's son, learns about an ancient myth from his nurse and Raj discovers a mysterious artifact on the beach while he's pondering his son's future. The nurse's stories, the artifact, the desperation of a loving father and the political conflicts between three disparate peoples all twine together to make for an interesting story.

Red Leaves finishes up with quite the cliff-hanger, and while I enjoyed the story I don't think I'll be carrying on with any sequels. Despite the every-day language, the anthropomorphizing of the characters, and the adventures experienced, I failed to connect with the story.… (plus d'informations)

This is part of a fantasy story for children which ends with a lot of unanswered questions for the next part. On the plus side it has everything a young child could want-strange characters, new lands, bears, flowers, kings and princes. It creates a new world of fun and adventure, allowing for numerous questions to get the imagination flowing. This story also makes use of names of actual places or items and gives them new meaning, such as Petra, raj, zo and bota. The writing flows well and is easily understood by a child. It has small chapters, which allows for short attention spans. Good and bad are easily distinguished. The only thing I would suggest is to go to the back and read the descriptors before starting the actual story.

I received the kindle version of this story and it had several editorial errors.… (plus d'informations)